May be captain and crew were dead drunk while power was running low.
Baltimore bridge hit and collapses
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It wasn't much time. The work crew were all immigrants and you know how it goes. Probably don't care about immigrants. Cops probably didn't know about the work crew on the bridge either. May they rip , and their families get massive compensation for their loss.
The consequences for a power failure on a submarine are quite different than a surface ship though.
I believe large ships are required to have backup generators. The questions then are: how often are the backups tested and maintained, how often does the crew do emergency drills and who checks to make sure the procedures are being followed. There's plenty of opportunity for mistakes or plain negligence in all these steps. Even if these things are done properly and regularly (there's likely some lapses), then there's the always the chance of the crew getting startled when the real thing happens and chaos ensues.
They closed a fair amount after being alerted.
It seems only the crew working on the bridge were still there when it went down.
I found this interesting. Bridges with protection against ship strikes in other states.
Gonna cost $1.2 billion to rebuild that thing
www.bbc.com
Baltimore bridge collapse: Insurance loss could hit $3bn
It could cost insurance companies $1.2bn for the bridge damages and millions more for the six deaths.
www.bbc.com
Yes, I learned that afterward. They did close one way but not entirely the other way so 6 cars plunged. It would have been much worse without that warning mayday from the captain.
A report from credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS predicts the bridge collapse could become the most expensive marine insured loss in history, surpassing the record of about $1.5 billion held by the 2012 shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off Italy. Morningstar DBRS estimates total insured losses for the Baltimore disaster could be $2 billion to $4 billion.Gonna cost $1.2 billion to rebuild that thing
Baltimore bridge collapse: Insurance loss could hit $3bn
It could cost insurance companies $1.2bn for the bridge damages and millions more for the six deaths.
Cargo ship's owner and manager seek to limit legal liability for deadly bridge disaster in Baltimore (msn.com)
I do not kinow WTF I am talking about but how could something as essential as steering go down?
A much slower speed when coming to a bridge by heavy vessels would have mitigated this
How much longer would that take? A couple of hours? WTF is the hurry?
Build bridges safer? Just slow heavy ships down
A much slower speed when coming to a bridge by heavy vessels would have mitigated this
How much longer would that take? A couple of hours? WTF is the hurry?
Build bridges safer? Just slow heavy ships down
Those guys don't look like vodka-powered Russian sailors.
And it wsn't a Russian vessel that hit the bridge. It was a ship, not a submarine!
You are such a shitty troll. I thought you being a TROLL you'd be an expert on bridge humour living under one yourself. You can't even get your anti-Ukraine bigotry straight. Or funny.
Despite sinking a third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet , and causing whats's left of the Russian Shipmarines to scurry away like wharf rats... UKRAINE DOESN"T EVEN HAVE A NAVY. How fucking funny and pathetic is that?!?!?!
Psssssttt. for future pop culture references... It is ONLY the Russian military that has the well deserved reputation of being drunk on duty.
Hrere is an example of funny relating to this tragedy if you want to bring Ukraine into it!
Maybe the ship was running on a bootleg load of low quality sulphurous Russian bunker HEAVY HRAVY HEAVY fuel oil? Maybe they got a deal from an Indian flagged bowser?!?!?
Soon enough with Ukraine flying homebuilt airplanes right past Mighty Russia's air defense systems into the Russian fractioning towers even Russian Lada's are going to be running on crude oil! I can see it now... valve and hoses drilled into the side of crude pipelines with you mutts filling the tanks with crude! lol! Or North Korean finest refined products
Or if you want to make fun of Ukraine's 'Navy' then maybe caption something like....
HAHAHAHA.!! ! Looks like another one of those dumb kokhols' sea baby drones went off course again. Stupid Uke's hit the wrong bridge!
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You have made a good point from a naive POV
A lot of money is spent on stopping ships from destroying a bridge when just slowing
big ships to dead slow should solve the problem but I would think that has been thought of by the experts
Quite a few ports hit before and after Baltimore including a bridge in Argentina I believe in which a truck or something melted through the actual bridge.
Such bad timing for transport all within a few weeks of each other.
Argentina bridge fire. I'm no expert, so if someone could take a guess here, what's going on? Looks like a foundry, but how does a bridge made of steel turn into one like that? What was a truck or whatever carrying to do that?
Such bad timing for transport all within a few weeks of each other.
Argentina bridge fire. I'm no expert, so if someone could take a guess here, what's going on? Looks like a foundry, but how does a bridge made of steel turn into one like that? What was a truck or whatever carrying to do that?
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